Checkpoint 1: EDA
By Arturo, Payson, and Victoria
Does healthcare access affect the number of preventable hospital stays of certain racial groups at the county level?
Why this matters:
- Reduce preventable hospitalizations
- Equitable resource allocation
- Focus efforts where help is needed most
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National Data
Source:
County Health Rankings 2025
<<<<<<< HEAD Variables of Interest:
- Preventable Hospital Stays, Primary Care Physician Ratio, Uninsured Rate - others things - County-level racial groupings (White Majority vs White Minority)
Preprocessing Highlights:
- explain how we did white majority vs minority ======= Raw Data:
- County-level health outcomes(ex)
- Healthcare access variables(ex)
- Disaggregated by race
Cleaned Data:
- Filtered and cleaned to complete observations
- Created “White Majority” vs. “Minority” indicator >>>>>>> 7ee0a101efb53b4520a6b63566b9fd4e4ad4fa0e
Preventable Hospitalizations by County